2025 Fringe Awards : Dunedin Fringe Festival

2025 Fringe Awards

Dunedin Fringe 2025 Award winners

Thank you so much to all our generous Award sponsors who made the below Awards possible, and HUGE congratulations to all our Fringe 2025 Award nominees and winners:

The Visual Art Award (sponsored by AJ & Adrian Woodhouse):

WINNER: Art at Heart: Kids Exhibition

The Em-paw-rium

BRinG bAcK ThE STaR FOunTAIn

Spectacle presents: CLOSE

The Dance / Physical Theatre Award (sponsored by Dr Jane Malthus):

WINNER: Only Bones - Daniel Nodder

Babyface

BOTTOM SURGERY

Manage Your Expectations

Motion Sickness

The Comedy Award (sponsored by Inch Bar):

WINNER: Just Eat The Damn Sausage

Ah, Jaysus!

BOTTOM SURGERY

Delightfool

ROADKILL: The Uber-Cool Musical

The Music Award (sponsored by Famously Fit Sports Nutrition):

WINNER: SPACE HOLE

An Iliad

For My Family, And Yours

Macbeth: The Barden Party

ROADKILL: The Uber-Cool Musical

The Theatre Award (sponsored by WOW! Productions):

WINNER: Babyface

An Iliad

Delightfool

No No No

The Tiny Show

Best Poster Award (sponsored by Better Creative):

WINNER: Ah, Jaysus!

GlowJam

BOTTOM SURGERY

A Hot Girl and Her Suzuki Swift

Science Magic: Messy Mayhem

Just Eat The Damn Sausage

Eli Matthewson: Heaven’s Devil

Delightfool

All Good If Not

ASMR HOUR

Outstanding Performance / Performer Award (sponsored by Penny Gwynne):

WINNER: Daniel Nodder (Only Bones)

Nick Tipa: Babyface

George Fenn: Sexy Golf Boy

Tomasin Fisher-Johnson: The Tiny Show

Tom Knowles: ROADKILL: The Uber-Cool Musical

Max Beal: An Iliad

Favourite Comedian Award (sponsored by Dunedin Comedy):

WINNER: Alan McElroy (Ah, Jaysus!)

Harriet Moir (Just Eat the Damn Sausage)

James Mustapic (All Good If Not)

Eli Matthewson (Heaven’s Devil)

Outstanding Emerging Talent Award (sponsored by Anderson Lloyd):

WINNER: Tom Knowles (ROADKILL: The Uber-Cool Musical)

Most Accessible Event (sponsored by That Blind Woman: Julie Woods):

WINNER: ASMR HOUR and The Tiny Show (joint winners)

Outstanding Design Award (sponsored by Southern Lights & Services):

WINNER: The Tiny Show

Babyface

Delightfool

ROADKILL: The Uber-Cool Musical

SoliloQueens (+ Kings): Act 2

Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (sponsored by Strawberry Sound):

WINNER: SoliloQueens (+ Kings): Act 2

Babyface

BRinG bAcK ThE STaR FOunTAIn

Manage Your Expectations

ROADKILL: The Uber-Cool Musical

UNESCO City of Literature ‘Beyond Words’ Award (sponsored by Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature Office):

WINNER: Babyface

A Year and A Day

I Was a Teenage Racist

Rare Public Appearance of Miss Georgette Heyer

No No No

Most Promising Pacific Artist Award (sponsored by the Creative NZ Pacific Team):

WINNER: Ravi the Poet (For My Family, And Yours)

Most Promising Māori Artist Award (sponsored by InterACT):

WINNER: Nick Tipa (Babyface)

Phil Davison Special Contribution to Festival Life (sponsored by #getinōtepoti podcast):

WINNER: Liz McCarthy & Vanessa Adey (joint winners)

Eli Joseph

Tristan Miller

Harriet Moir

Blake Armstrong

Warwick Broadhead Memorial Award (sponsored by Woof! Bar):

WINNER: BRinG bAcK ThE STaR FOunTAIn (Ellie Swann)

NZ Fringe Touring Award (sponsored by Dunedin Arts Festival & Dunedin Fringe):

WINNER: Just Eat the Damn Sausage

Babyface

Donna Brookbanks in Green Fingered

ROADKILL: The Uber-Cool Musical

William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar

Runner up Best in Fringe (sponsored by Outstanding Performance):

WINNER: Only Bones - Daniel Nodder

Babyface

ROADKILL: The Uber-Cool Musical

Just Eat the Damn Sausage

The Tiny Show

Best in Fringe (sponsored by Deloitte):

WINNER: ROADKILL: The Uber-Cool Musical

Babyface

Only Bones - Daniel Nodder

Just Eat the Damn Sausage

The Tiny Show

About Us

Dunedin Fringe envisions a city ignited by creativity, where all people embrace art, culture and creativity into their daily lives.

We have a mission to provide platforms for creative expression that help nurture communities. We have a special focus on supporting emerging artists, and the development of new and experimental work.

We produce the Dunedin Fringe Festival, Amped Music Project and New Zealand Young Writers Festival annually, curate the White Box Gallery, and manage the performing arts venue Te Whare o Rukutia.

Our Contacts

Dunedin Fringe Arts Trust
19 George Street,
Dunedin 9016,
Aotearoa New Zealand

03 477 3350